All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
LEO TOLSTOYWhen you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.
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Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation – it is the one unbreakable diamond.
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He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.
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The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
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Kings are the slaves of history.
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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
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All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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It’s not given to people to judge what’s right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.
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If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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